The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-22
AT THE CAPITAL.
A Budget of News Items
from Washington.
THE PRESIDENTS CONDITION.
Fears that He viii Not Live Out His
Term, il He Does Not Take
More Exercise.
CAPITAL Chips.

Capital Chips.
WASHINGTON, March q. Instruction
were issued to the assistant Treasurers
at New York, Philadelphia snd Boston
to receive deposits for 81 and 50
SILVER CERTIFICATES,
to-day, and to resume the issue Of these
notes.
The issue of
STANDARD SILVER DOLLARS
from the minis during the week ended
March 18th, was $4O6,8O5; during
the corresponding period of last year
S416,45O. The shipments of fractional
silver coin since March l, amount to
1922, OBS.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury
appointed the following
STORE KEEPERS AND GAUGERs:
Ashley B. Milford, at Jacksonville,
Ky; Thomas Rodman, Jr., at Frank
fort, KY; Michael Crotty, at Cincinnati,
Ohio, and Thomas M. Sharp in Nicholas
County, KY.
The President appointed Thomas
Hayden, United States District At
torney for Nevada this afternoon.
The Treasury Department has taken
ADVERSE ACTION
on the applica ton of the officers of the
Ho Wong Joss House, of San Fran
cisco, a. society established for alleged
religious purposes, for the free entry OF
the figure of g. dragon representing God
or Joss Ho Wong. The figure is about $50
feet long, and is composed of paper,
silk, metal, glass, feathers, tinsel and
goats hair.
THE APPLICATION IS BASED
on the provisions of the law for the free
entry of philosophical and scientific
apparatus, statuary, paintings, draw
statues and specimens of sculpture,
where specially imported in good faith
for the use of any society incorporated
or established for religious purposes"
The department hello that the image is
not included in the list of articles above
mentioned and is, therefore, not en-
titled TO free entry.
DR.. q. T. Sewers, one of the most
prominent physicians of Washington,
in an interview with a reporter, to-day,
declared that there is danger that
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND WILL NOT LIVE
THROUGH HIS TERM,
unless there is change in his mode OF
living. Doctor Sewers, six months be-
fore Manning's illness, made the same
prediction with regard to the Secretary,
and advised friend to warn him of his
danger. In the interview to-day,
Sewers says: 1T may be deemed i'm.
pertinent to talk to the President
through newspaper man, but / know
OF no other way of reaching him and
those about him so surely. You recall
my attempts with the friends of Man
ming, and their fruit, and I do not feel
that should take the same chances in
this matter. | am personally apprised
of the Presidents condition, and while it
is in no sense dangerous, it will not
be long before there will be reason for
alarm. President Cleveland is a large,
feshy man, and since he came to the
White House has gained
ENORMOUSLY IN FLESH.
Now, when he lived in Buffalo, it was
his habit to take long walks. Since he
came here, however, he has abandoned
every exercise, save carriage riding
That is of little or no. use,
with the springs now in use and the
smooth streets for which Washington
is famous. The President is man who
works with his head great deal; is, in
fact, an intense brain worker. He was,
in other words, plodder, and his brain
is CO nsequently filled with an excess of
blood. What is the RESULT
HE WORKS WITH HIS HEAD,
he eats enormously and fails to exer-
else his muscles. His blood vessels are
weakened, and it is only question of
time, when in amoment of excitement
he bursts a blood vessel. tell
you, at the rate President Cleve-
land is now living, there is
great danger that he will not
should be done to bring him to realize
his danger and take. proper steps to
prevent the result which will surely
ensue if he fails to take proper exercise
What should recommend would be
the fixing up of a. room, In the White
House and the setting apart OF half an
hour every day for
GYMNAsTIC EXERCISRs.
That alone, in my opinion, will pre-
vent catastrophe. the avoidance of
which not ly the President but the
county at large is interested in secur-